Little Falls transcript., 1887-05-20
hotel, loss $38, 900. no insurance; Richard
Agar's store, loss 5000, no insurance.

Agar's store, loss 5000, no insurance. ;gs$
Ex-senator Mahone's wife and daughter
are visiting in California. :: tts
Ex.ConRressman Barbour OF Virginia
says his career as q legislator is ended
Or. q. A. Van Anda reported to the min.
listers of Minneapolis that as a resnltof
the j ones Small meeting from 300 500
people had signitied a desire to join a
church, ' &EE @@
! Senator-elect Farwell OF Illinois has
taken Daniel Manning's house in Wash
ington. 5s E5s ,#., ~
Gen. Alex. Law ton, the new minister to
Austria, will sail May 80 for his post.
Billy Welch, the we'll known minstrel,
died in New York. r.
Hon. Levi P. Morton is erecting II pala-
tial sandstone residence at Rhine Cliff on
the Hudson river. The size is lI4xS1. !
The late w. c. De Pauw OF New Albany,
Ind, left fortune OF Sc, 900, 900. \.
Rev. John Waldron, one OF the most
widely known Roman Ca tholic clergyrnen
in tho Wcst, died after along illness at
Chicago. He has been pastor OF St. Johns
parish in that city over a third OF a cen
tury.
Senator Palmer's Washington house
cost him SS5, 900. 1t contains twenty fiye
Sam Randall win retire to his old conn
try home near Paoli, Pa, for the summer.
A gentleman at Washington found in an
old trunk the silver shield which was stol-
en- from Washington's coffin in 1887.
The new pharmacy law OF Dakota requires
that the two pharmasentic ical associa.
tious in Dakota shall each send in q list OF
five names. from which the governor shall
appoint three to constitute the board.
Gov. Church made appointments as fol
lows: South Dakota j. l.. Kreyct,ie, Iro.
quois, three years; lily L. Warne Mitchell,
two years; D. A. White, Flandreau, one
year. North Dakota-H. L. Haussaman.
Grafton, three years: Frank Frisby Bis
marck, two years; E. c. Maxcey, Fargo,
one year. The appointees are all Republi-
cans.
At Detroit Mich, in obedience to an
order of the Stove Manufacturers Defense
association, which met there recently, the
Michigan, Detroit and Peninsular Stove
| companies shut down, throwing $500 men
out OF employment.
Prairie fires have done considerable
damage in some portions OF Dakota and
Northern Minnesota.
The dwelling OF P. Hamre at Marvel was
burned, together with the contents. Loss,
81, 1OO;. insurance, $500.
The ceremony OF laying the corner stone
OF st. Marks Episcopal church at Aberdeen,
Dak., will be held May 16, under the au-
spices OF the Grand Lodge A. f. and A. M.
of Dakota.
The Arthur statue committee in New
York has very wisely limited the amount
to be collected and spent on the work to
$25. 900 Or $50, 900. This sum they will
easily obtain.
Old man Hem. who for so many years
was one the chara cters of Wall street and
lived in comparative wa Mt and penury
that he might accumulate hundreds OF
thousands OF dollars, has left them all by
will to mistress Bertha Wagner, wife OF
John Wagner" He left about 81, 500, 900.
His relatives will probably contest the
| will.
The roads to Chicago will not restore
the fast trains because it won't pay.
The ambitious young town OF Minot'
Oak, is half burned up.
At Chicago, J. c. Mathews & Co., whole.
| sale dealers in curled hair and moss mat
tresses, were burned out. Loss. $50,
Senator MCPHERSON, who was largely in
strumental in securing the passage OF the
resolution ordering the Pacific railroad in
vestigation evidently does not think much
OF the methods OF the commission. He
says OF it: The investigation is childish
and unimportant. What congress wants
| is the facts. Thus far the investigation
has not brought out any. A committee of
congress will probably have ultimately to
| make the inves tisation.
John Boyle O'Reilly, the Boston poet
| and journalist, is refreshing himself at
| Newport, r. /.
An Ottawa special says: There is con-
Cif o1 III ~
| OF commons on the question of the COM
| mercial union with the United States. and
! this feeling is largely due to the manifest
| disposition OF the American people toward
| some scheme for simple reciprocity. In
few days the matter will be brought before
| the dominion parliament and a decision
| will be asked for. The entire Liberal par
| ty. with q solid phalanx from the mari
| time provinces and Manitoba, is in favor
| upon to certainty that within a week
| Sir John Macdo donald and his followers,
who stand by party rather than by prin.
| ciple will be driven to cover their nation.
| al policy pet scheme.
A London Special to the N. Y. Postsays:
| 1t is no longer possible to disregard the
rumors which have repeatedly gained cur
| rency lately concerning Mr.. Parnell's
health. His private life. as every one
| knows, is passed in the most complete SO.
clusion. The Irish members, even ii they
| knew, would not, OF course, communicate
to the outside world any unwelcome news
| about him. From another and trust
worthy source, however, learn that the
health Of the Irish leader is not only bad
but alarming. My informant went so far
as to add that even his participation in
the future political struggle is doubtful.
| have reason to believe, but cannot state
L..
stomach.
The Interstate commission has had a
| new problem submitted to it, viz: Wheth-
er the Southern railroad can discriminate
against color and force colored 4men who
pay frst-class fare to ride in separate cars.
The case has been brought before tho COM
mission on the complaint of Rev. William
II. Connell OF Huntsville, Ala, colored
preacher. Hepaid first-class fare was eject
ed from q regular coach and was injured.
His lawyers claim that the complaint
does not come within the decision OF the
United States supreme court in the civil
rights case for the reason that tho inter
state law comes within the plain provision
OF the federal constitution, ,
Capt. Ed. s. Bean has resigned 40 inspec-
tor OF mails at the st. Paul post office, to
| accept q position with the st. Paul Fire
and Marine Insurance company.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker and her mother,
Lusella McWha, were found dead in the
house Of the former at Holidays Cove.
Their heads were beaten by 4 ear pin, and
an Ak was lying beside them. Three hun
dred and fifty dollars belonging to Mr..
Baker are missing.
Mrs. Charles e. Doremus, a niece of Sal
lie Wa:d, the once famous belle Of Louis
vile, who has been m narried four times, has
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